Challenge Information

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! We have another fabulous sketch from design team member, Jen Nelson.

And welcome to Sandy's world of her funky imagination and quirky characters.Sandy's has had a pencil in her hand since she was "knee-high to a grasshopper" and started on her artistic journey with her first family ball & stick figures portrait at age 3. We'll have to find the piece of work in the family history trunk and post it...

Back to the regular scheduled program! Sandy has loved art, drawing, water coloring and doodling for many years... and with the digital image world she can now share it with all of you. Brrr (Penguin) was her first main character and her other quirky images followed not long after. We hope you enjoy the enduring images and look around and add Sandy's images to your digital stamp collections...

1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. 2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!

This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge. Voting will begin on Tuesday, July 9th at Noon (PST).

Good morning! Thank you to everyone who joined in our sketch challenge for the last two weeks. In one hour, we will be posting our new challenge for the next two weeks! Stay tuned!! In the meantime, let's announce our winners from the last sketch!

As you know, we have gone to a voting system for choosing our winners! Before I announce our winner, I would like to share our three Runner Ups, who had the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most votes!!! They received "Birthday Honours"!!! Congratulations!

Congratulations JoAnn!!! Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.

Thank you to everyone who played along. Our newest sketch will launch in one hour at 9am (PST), we hope you will join us and thank you to the A Day for Daisies for sponsoring our challenge for the past two weeks.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating birthday cards this year! The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?!

We are so lucky to have the sweet Sherry Eckblad as our "Sub stamper" on the team. She will be filling in from time to time for our design team. I did offer her a DT position but she has a lot on the go right now and "subbing" was the perfect solution! Welcome Sherry!

***Please note we will be going to a voting system for choosing our weekly winners...voting will happen on Tuesdays at Noon (EST) and end on Wednesdays at Noon (EST).

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.Our sponsor for this sketch isA Day For DaisiesA Day For Daisies provides themed categories of over 1000 digital illustrations, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!ADFD is offering a $ 12 Gift Card to our winner!!

1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. 2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!

This linky will close in two weeks, at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Good morning! Thank you to everyone who joined in our sketch challenge for the last two weeks. In one hour, we will be posting our new challenge for the next two weeks! Stay tuned!! In the meantime, let's announce our winners from the last sketch! It was a close race!

Before I announce this week's winners, I would like to announce that Deanna Dean has decided to step down from our design team. She will be greatly missed and we wish her all the best!! She will be playing along when she can. Thank you for all of your hard work Deanna!!!

As you know, we have gone to a voting system for choosing our winners! Before I announce our winner, I would like to share our three Runner Ups, who had the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most votes!!! They received "Birthday Honours"!!! Congratulations!

Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.

Thank you to everyone who played along. Our newest sketch will launch in one hour at 9am (PST), we hope you will join us and thank you to the Neat and Tangled Stamps for sponsoring our challenge for the past two weeks.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Don't forget to vote for your favourite submissions. Voting is open to
everyone, is anonymous and private. Please scroll down to the post
below. Then click on the word "vote" next to the star below the thumbnail of your selection. You're allowed 3 votes.
Once you've voted the stars and option to vote will not be visible.
Don't worry, your vote has gone through, just privately.

Just go to the current challenge and vote on the linked up cards!

Voting will close on Wednesday at 12 noon EST. The voting results will be announced on Thursday at 11am EST and our new challenge will begin at 12 noon EST.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Happy Monday! Hope you had a fabulous weekend! Glenda here with a last minute reminder about the current sketch. I wasn't able to join in on the original challenge post (life has been crazy hectic) so wanted to make sure I played along with this fabulous sketch from Jen (see below). I translated the stars into a tag and some washi tape and made this bright masculine birthday card.

Our sponsor this time around is Neat & Tangled Stamps. All the guidelines for playing are here. Hope you get a chance to play around.

***Please note we now have a voting system for choosing our weekly winners...voting will happen on Tuesdays (tomorrow - June 11th) at Noon (EST) and end on Wednesdays at Noon (EST).